There are many ways and sad stories connected with achievements and one would say the incredible journey of a Canadian salmon swimming upstream, denying their predators like bears, eagles wolves etc grabbing them out of the water to gashing themselves on the rocks before reaching their place to spawn would be one of the hardest. But with humans, we have different battles in injury set-backs, illnesses, financial and career crisis to psychological problems like bullying, envy and extreme jealousy. Here is my story and the things I have found about achieving even the simplest ambition.

I later learnt that there were financial or moral disadvantages, but I didn’t expect them to be personal, with friends and close relatives whom seemed to have a slight envy or even jealousy.

For some time previous I had a desire to better myself and to get away from the repetitive engineering work. With a young family and a mortgage around my neck, I had to keep a steady income to pay for it and support the family. I wasn’t the type to gamble since I had experienced jumping into where the grass looked greener before ended up out of work.

So I had to set a plan and think hard of what I actually wanted to achieve at the age of forty. I knew I liked telling stories and had a vivid imagination. So I took an exclusive course in writing with the Writer’s Bureau which taught all types of writing from Fiction to Non-fiction articles and playwriting naming but a few. Holding interviews at work with senior management turned a few heads; I didn’t care much because I wanted to get on but with a criticism in one of my own files got me in hot water with other workers; although it was unedited and for my own notes, it got in the wrong hands.

It was hard work getting home from work; helping my wife get the kids to bed and having enough quality time with my fabulous family, but I managed the best way I could. Studying sometimes up to half past ten at night didn’t always go down very well with the others, but working on the computer can do that sometimes as you get transfixed into the story. You can mean to go on that for an hour and end up working three to four; especially when the damn thing crashes as the computer gets older.